This weekly article gets to the heart of your fantasy decision making. The patterns and shortcuts our brains prefer to make don’t always result in our making the best choices. Now that we’ve made it to the fantasy playoffs, the hardest part isn’t over. We need to be extra careful about whom to trust going forward, and whom to let go of. We need a fresh-eyed view for the next couple weeks, making sure we’re starting our optimal roster. It’s a bit less about Game Theory and more about simply putting the best foot forward. The difficulty is in benching highly drafted famous name players for late season waiver wire wonders. At the same time, we can’t let our recency bias get the better of us either.

Week 13 Review

The biggest surprise of Week 13 was that a lot of low-end WRs produced big-time. Jaron Brown, Zay Jones and Dante Pettis were leading options for fantasy with two touchdowns apiece. Meanwhile, Mike Evans, Julio Jones and T.Y. Hilton were major...